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SHELBY AURORA. [ W, H. MILLER) - - EmiOK.i £S1\^LISHK i>718 75. Aiirora’s^CircluatioH - - 2,1-11:! TOL. XV, NO. 27. lLBY RORA I SHELBY AURORA, il’HE rviOST WIDELY CIRCULATED PAPER PUBLISHED I2f jClevela.nd, Gaston, Lincola, Ruther- I ford, McDowell, Polk counties.* [ f{DVERTIS!NGffATES 0^J{PPLICA7I0N. SHELBY, K C., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1891. oisri3> liiitli the method and results wlien ■Synip of Figs ia taken; it is pleasant and refrealiing to the taste, anil acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, t*-4ver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- iispels colds, bead- _ / and cures habitual ^8upatit;ii; ' iSyrup of Figs is the remedy of its kind ever pro- fluced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the mos healthy and a^eeable substances, its many excellent qualities coiiimeiul it to all and have made it tlie most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and SI bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist T/ho may not have it on hand •will pro cure it promptly for any one ^Y^.o ■wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CG. Witli ;i Basket oi Daisies. lfo\7 like tliino own sweet de;u' frieud, These blogsoins fair to thee I send; Of iiatiiro’.s ^,Mr(leD they’re u jiari With petnls imre ai)d j'.'olden heart. How fair to see tJieir suowy shields A-bloomiug far across the fields, As they from out the grasses start— But best of all the golden heart! ■When o'er tljo land with willing feet The sunbeams blight, the c-avth to greet From olt the eastern hill tops start,'' How- brightly shines the golden heart! What though the earth bom mists arise, To blot,the sunshine from the shies? They cannot hide though dark they fall The goldoi heart that glows i'ov all. And like the golden hearted bloom SS^n-^Tinstriue'^ind in gloom Is this my golden-he?rted friend To whom these blossoms fair I send. —Alex W. Bealeh. ‘‘Protection or Free Trade.*’ >1 r; COETTUBKnas/ Always open —the offer made by the proprietors of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It’s a rew^ard. of $500 cash for an in curable case of catarrh, no matter how bad, or of how long standing. They’ll carry it out, too. It’s one thing to make the offer. It’s a very d.iffcrent thing to make it good. It couldn’t bo done, except with an extraordinary medicinc. But that’s w'hat^ they have. By it’s mild, Boothing, cleansing aiid healing propertiesy Dr. Sage’s Remedy Gures >*v-. wors^fSJfe^^ It doesn’t sitaply ,liate^ tli^ dis-! °.^^®,.?fect^AixJ'l[)ermanent curcJL^Try It and see. If you can’t be cured, you’ll be paid. The only question is — are you ■willing to make the test, if the makers are willing to take the risk ? If so, the rest is easy. You pay your druggist fifty cents and the trial begins. If you’re wanting the S500 you^ll get something better—a cure / bei PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. w. arONEY. J. WEBB. GIDNEY & WEBB ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, SnELBT, N. C. Prompt and cavefiil attention given to all business intrusted to their care. ■ ■■ 3 west of the court house. K. ilCBRAYEB. K. L. liYBURN. McBRAYER & RYBURN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ' SIIELBY, N. 0. Give prompt attention to all business intrusted to them. ,, , , , ^““Office in Commercial Hotel biaild- J. A. ANTHONY. ATTORNEY AT LAW, SHELBY, 2T. C. Office near Tost Office and first east room upstairs in Miller Block. [mar21 f //, 7. HUDSON, Jr.. > ^ ATTOKNET AT LAW, SHEL.X1Y, N, G. OTrompt and careful attention given ■|all business intrusted to his care. Correspondence Aurora. Ij nder the above caption I now of fer a fair and friendly controversy to any fair-minded and honorable Protectionist who is now, or may hereafter become a reader of the Au rora. This must be the leading issue in the N’ational contest in 1892, and now is the best time to commence school. The Cleveland and Ruther ford Prohibition elections have pass ed, and both counties show up hand some majorities for Protection, and especially Cleveland, and everything quiet again so that men are now both m good condition to think and apply thought to conscience and bo bene- fitted by suggestions made fairly on one of the most powerful subjects that ever engaged the attention of a Tariff-smitten, Tax-ridden, oppressed, people as we are, under the dark lan tern leadership of the present Admin istration with its high protection tar iff and its poor exhausted treasury. With a newly created indebtedness of nearly one and a half billion dol lars instituted by the recklessness of a reckless Assembly in the Kational Capitol and known as the Fifty- First Congress, with Thos. Brackett Reid at its head, playing the part of the third, in the adorable Trinity. Mr. McKinley, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, comes up with long faced, sanctimonious, hypocrit ical pretense to decrease tariff with a report of 763 paragraphs, nearly all of which raise instead of reduce. This raising of tariff is of course done to reduce the surplus, and it has had the much -v^esired and happy effect. It is conc'ec* iha^ governihents.'must^ ci’eate a revenue to defray the- general expenses of the administration of the same. On this point there is no party controversy. The controversy is upon the mode of raising and the amount to be raised, well as the uses to which it is to bo applied. X7nd.er the present system of tariff it is an indirect tax paid by all con sumers. This is the grand reason why tariff is so poorly understood by the masses. Did they pay this tax direct they would see clearly where their money goes and from what source the government receives its money. The government of itself has no money, it is only a handler of the people’s money. It is quite amusing to think that the new Sena tor-elect from Kansas wants to be taxed by the government to enable the government to loan Kansas farm ers money at very low interest. Is he sane or insane ? Let the farmer keep his money at home and not send it to Washington to get to borrow it at cheap interest. “Oh, ye Galatians, who hath be witched you.” The tariff operates against the la boring man to the benefit of bloated bondholders. It makes the rich rich er and the poor poorer. Let some protectionist answer these assertions negatively and the ball opens at once. Protection means to defend and our protective tariff means to prevent trade between America and all na tions, or to raise the price of import ed commodities to our consumers, or in words, an insult to all nations. • Why not protect America from the landing of foreign paupers ? Bob Peak. QOAIMERCIAL HOTEL, i-'-'*?^rmcily-QOGupiedby J. W. Clarke.) nra.Oue oi' the best iiv North Carolina „ j.t-class cuisine; comfortable rooms. ® ’E;RMS: Per month, $20 to $25; per lorrect. . «•" 'o'? a^Servants meet every train. ay, v- 111^ ^ borders, octlG-tf] rroprietor. He hf ""lieves tier ^ RUFFIN OSBORNE, >^8 Dentist, (LICBl/SEE STATE BOAKD DENTAL EXAMINERS) SHELBY, N. C. Office over Martin & Ware’s store, respectfully solicit a share of the dental practice of Shelby and surrounding .country. febl2-6m ^WATT • ELLIOTT,*- FASHIONABLE BARBER, Makion Strbet, - - - Shelby, N. C, All work done in first-class style; only experienced workmen employed; hot and cold baths at all hours. Pati-onage solicited and all work guaranteed. [jy4-ly THE “3 C’S RAILROAD. Arraiiifeineiits for Its Reorgan ization and Early Com pletion. I’liiLADELPHiA, June 23.~Thoso in this city who are interested in the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago l^ailroad, better known as the Three Cs, have about completed arrange ments for the reorganization of the road and the floatmg of a loan suffi cient to so far complete the road that it will be enabled to earn the inter est upon %s bonds. It is proposed to take the road out of the hands of tlie receiver and complete a large portion of it. Those directly inter ested in the road’s future some time ago prepared a plan of reorganiza tion and submitted it to the creditors. Engineers were sent to Tennessee, Georgia and other states through which the road is to run, aua tto’re ports they brought back were so en couraging that a general agreement to the plan of reorganization was proposed. During the week just passed nearly every creditor has af- fied his signature. Now only a few small ones have not signed, and these are expected to come within the next day or so. As soon as this is done application will be made to hand the property over to the stockholders. The engineers’ examination result ed in ascertaining the fact that if be tween $600,0-00 and $700,000 is ex pended on the road at once it can be so far completed that interest may be earned upon all the bonds that have been issued. “Arrangements have been made,” said a gentleman heavily interested in the road, “to borrow the money necessary to do this work, and just as soon sa the plan of reorganization goes through it will be forthcoming. We propose to immediately put a large force of men at work, and be fore the end of the year we will have several hundred miles of the road in operation and paying a good return.” POPULATION OF HADES. A Ocnlxis Figures it Out to l>e 175,000,000,000. Certainly an endeavor to arrive at a coiTect idea of the population of hell, assuming the orthodox idea of it to be sound, has at least the ele ment of novelty to recommend it. A recent writer has computed that in round numbers the earth has a popu lation of 1,300,000,000 of which 300,- 000,000 are professed Christians, the other 1,000,000,000 being Mohamme dans, Buddhists, Jews, Pagan, heath en. The whole race was condemned to eternal punishment for the sin of conc^d^y This wa^ the fall of man, ■ w which ther4 was and is no demption save through the death of Christ. Biblical chronology gives the earth a period of about 6,000 years. From Adam’s time to Christ was 4,000 years, during which period no human souls were saved. The population then may have averaged 1,000,000,- 000. Three generations, or 3,000,- 000,000 pass away in each century. Forty ceBturies, therefore, consigned 120,000,000,000 of men to eternal fire, and, for all that is known, they are there now. In the 1,900 years which have elapsed since the birth of Christ 57,000,000,000 of human beings have lived and died. If all the Christians, nominal and real, who have ever lived on the face of the earth have been saved they would not number more than 18,000,000,- 000. Now, if is deducted the latter number from the grand total of 177,- 000,000,000 there is found 159,000,- 000,000 souls who are suffering the torments of hell fire, against the 18,- 000,000,000 who have escaped. But this is not the whole truth. Nobody believes tlfSit more than ten per cent, of the professed Christians are saved, Calvinists themselves say the elect are few. If that is a fact heaven contains but 1,800,000,000, against a population in hell of over 175,000,- 000,000. South’s Growth. Under the head line “The Growtii of the South,” the New York Her ald says: * Statistics are sai^d !>' be dull And stupid. That may be true as a gen eral thing, but when you take an in ventory cf your property and find that you are worth just three times as much as you were ten years ago then figures become more fascinat ing than poetry, and more thrilling than oratory. The South will back us up in these statements. When it pulled togeth er after the war it found it had noth ing but bankruptcy and pluck as capital iu trade. Its motto was,. “The past it nowhere ; the future is everywhere,” and it drev^ioxoA^y:’ one hole tighter and startVi-'-^'^ race. The statistics which represen Drocrresa art? aa cheering as old wine. Its coal out put twenty years ago was about two million tons; now it is nearly eigh teen million tons. In 1880 it "thought it was rushing along at breakneck speed because it had erected mills on its streams and manufactured 180,000 bales of the cotton it had raised, but in 1890, only ten years later, it manufactured 500,000 bales and made contracts for more mills. Before the war the sleepy negro lay in the sun on top of iron mines whose value was only suspected. Agriculture absorbed the people’s at tention and they let the negro sleep on. Now the mines are worked, the bonanza has been uncovered, dreams of wealth have become an inspira tion ; the roar of the forge, the hum of machinery is heard everywhere, and old Pennsylvania is beginning to tremble in her boots as she sur- lys her vigorous and daring rival. The South has rolled up its sleeves and proposes to be rich again—rich er than ever' It has all the natural resources which attract capital and enterprise. Young men from the North on the lookout for a career are making investments there, help- to develop the country, and they always receive a warm welcome. The tides of population, kept apart ' ong, are mingling their waters, and unless the politicians raise a row there won’t be any North or any South twenty years from now, and in their stead we shall have a united, contented and prosperous country. Therefore, hang the politicians and let the good work go on. WHOLE NO. 769. fCAMPMENT OF THE PEN SIONERS. rilaJl Issues Orders to the Old t^'eteraiis to gro Into Camp at [ Wriglitsville, July 29th. . K. D. Hall, of this city, acting liatant, issues the following, a copy hich was received by the Mes- r yesterday: i’ATE PiCNSlONEKS’ NOTKJE. . fequarters Pensioners’ Associa- '-eneral Order No. 1. th Carolina pensioners who ■ ysrate. army, and ' jito camp, are Wrightsville the *29th'' McKinley Lookinff Af terHis Own peaking of the achievements of the “Billion Dollar” Congress, Major McKinley says: “We have looked after our own,” and the major spoke the .truth. Every monopoly that fried out its fat to swell^tho Quay- Wanamaker corruption fund was looked after, and so was every job that promised to provide a similar fund for 1891 and 1892. These man ufacturers are already being “looked after” to help out Mr. McKinley in his campaign, and there is no doubt of their putting up the money to make things easy for the champion of protection. Major McKinley looks after his own.—Washington Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal. “Excuse me, George, but when saw you a year ago, your face was covered with pimples; it seems to be all right now.” “Yes, sir; that’s be cause I stuck to Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, the greatest blood medicine in the world. I was never so well in ray life as I am now.” *CENTRAL HOTEL>« (Cor. Warren and LaFayetto Sts.) SHELBY, N. C. Located in business part of town. Near Court House and Post Office. Carriages meet all trains. Commercial Travelers will find the Central first-class. Good Sample Room on first floor free of charge. Clean beds and neatly furnished rooms. a®“Special rates for Summer Boarders. W. E. RYBURN, Prop’r. Mrs. Hicks—“Mary, where Dicky?” Mary—“Out in the back yard, mum.” Mrs. Hicks—“Go out and see what he is doing and tell him to stop it.” No matter what may be the ills yoix bear from indigestion, a dose of Ayer’s Cathartic Pills will ease you without question. Just try them once and be assured; they have much worse dyspeptics cured. You’ll find them nice and amply worth the price. Drain on American Gold. Londox, June 24.—The Daily News, in its ^iJ^^-Qcial article this morning says: “The continued drain of gold from America is grad ually tending to ihe inevitable adop; .Uirjii, fllroads in na on their their neaf- conductor ,.„i 0% 6U he signed : cIe»-nb-*^QQy^\jifpe,rior court of Tcounty, with the coapty seal at- 1, and certifying "'ihat their J are on the pension roll of their f. Icesent this notice to the agent 9r Rctor with the certificate from theroerk of the court. . Pensioners will be met on the ar rival of the train in Wiloiingtofr'^ carriid to the camping grounds free of charge. All those'going into camp must bo provided" with three days rations and one blanket or quilt. For further information address, Adjutant E. D. Hall, Wilmington, N. C. By order of the Executive Com. Accompanying the above is the following taken from the same enve lope : “For the eyes of the State Pen sioners.—The attention of the press of this State is earnestly#directed to the accompanying circular. It re lates to the co-operation of the vete ran soldiers of the Confederacy with the> new soldiery, who, in time of peace, are undergoing the training needed to tit them for maintaining the honor and securing the safety of one common country. old soldier, drawing his little pe^ion, the somewhat feeble expres sion of State gratitude, may learn that the value of his past services is not measured by the sum of his pen- giou, but by the hold he has on pop ular affection and grateful memory of his past sacrifices. lie will be •v^icomed to the encampment as a ml^^-ry of the past; he will also be wfeftuined as a teacher in recalling the practical lessons of real war. is to be hoped that very many - of/A^m will avail themselves of the “ut n tion of a virtui silver stan4?ird!^ rae-et agaii;', and Presidential Candidates. No No 1789, George Washington, opposition. 1792, George Washington, opposition. 1796, John Adams and Thomas .Tefferson. 1800, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. 1804, Thomas Jefferson and C. C. Pinckney. ' 308, James jVladison and C. C. Pinckney. 1812, James Madisou and DeWitt Clinton. 1816, James Monroe and Rufus King. 1820, James Monroe. No oppo sition. 1824, John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson. 1828, Andr^ Jackson and John Q. Adams. 1832, Andrew Jackson and Henrv Clay. 1886, Martin Van Buren and Wm. H. Harrison. 1840, Wm. H. Harrison and Mar tin Van Baren. 1844, James K. Polk and Henry Clay.. 1848, Zachary Taylor and Lewis 1852, Franklin Pierce and Win field Scott. 1856, James Buchanan and John C. Fremont. 1860, Abraham Lineolu and S. A. Douglass. 1854, Abraham Lincoln, and G. B. McClellan. 1868, U. S. Grant and Horatio Seymour. 1872, U. S. Grant and Horace Greely. 1876, K. B. Hayes and S. J. Tilden. 1880, James A. Garfield and W. S. Hancock. 1884, Grover Cle veland and James G. Blaine. 1888, Benjamin Harrison and Gro- , ver Cleveland. Good crops may Succeed in recover ing a portion of the twelve millions of gold already exported this year, but every year brings nearer the time when silver certificates will be forced into circulation. When the change comes there might be a rush for silver, but it is more likely that the silver already coined will suffice for ctjrrency purposes with paper. Therefore the idea of an unlimited new demand for silver is unwar ranted.” A Story That is New. The biggest story of the season comes from Lincolnton. Mr. W. T. Murray, who is a merchant of that place, says that while he was a sol dier in Virginia he came across a farmer who had just housed a crop of popcorn, and pretty soon after the hands had left the crib, it caught fire and every grain popped, and very soon the whole plantation was cov ered with the white corn. A mule about 28 years old, which was in the barn near by, saw the ground cover ed with white corn, and, though the thermometer registered 90 deg. in the shade, the mule froze to death, thinking that it was a terrible heavy snow. . The Utility of the Pretty Girl. The pretty girl is a universal fac tor in modern life. She possesses the advantage not only of ornament, but of utility. She has been utilized in an endless variety of ways. She has become a howling success in the operatic ballet, and is as conspicuous and as original in front of a type writer or behind a counter as she is on dress parade in a new spripg suit or luxuriously lolling in a big easy chair. But it has remained for an enterprising Connecticut minister of the gospel to introduce the pretty girl in a new sphere as a church ush- . er.—Detroit Tribune. The Fight in Ohio» Tariff refdrmers are expected to, vote for McKinley despite his tariff views, hard money men will, it is hoped, think of Sherman, and forget all about the platform, silver men are to be soothed with the platform into a complete disregard of the ex- eecretary’s record, and finally, such of the voters as cannot be humbugg ed in any of these ways, are, accord ing to the calculations, to be held in line by appeals to their party spirit, on the one hand, and a general de nunciation of the democracy on the other.—Brooklyn Citizen. He Couldn’t Afford It. A mother was urging her son to purchase an overcoat, and he was insisting that he could not afford one “Very well, then,” said she. “You will get pneumonia, see if you don’t.” “No,” said he, “I won’t get that either: I can’t afford anything new.”—New York Sun. of ^the facilities generously provided for their easy access to the encamp ment, and the provision made for thc.ir comfort and entertainment. ^ Yours Very Truly, W. II. IlAMILTOy. Prominent People. The Haytian general, llippolyle, is about sixty years of age and of coal-black complexion. He is the political idol of the pure blacks, whose blood has not been contami nated by intermarriage with the creoles. He is the son ol a college professor of; Port au IVince, and is a man -of considerable learning and cultivation. The wife of Governor Campbell is one of the shrev^deet politicians of Ohio. She is, besides, a woman of extraordiary tact, and so free from snobbiness and ostentation that she has made, many an influential friend for hei^- iiusbafcl.: Ai the time the governor was a mem^gr of congress ‘^'s. Campbell bfcanie very popular I'ashionable ..Washington society, no'visitor from Ohio was «ve't too uncouth or awkward to receive a warm welcome from her. The inheritance of great wealth has not destroyed young Adam Fore- paugh’s Ibsi^for the glitter and span gles of the circus. 'Though his in come is now greater than president’s salary, the son of the-great showman dons his pink tights at every per- .formance and rides the hurdle race with all the interest of a ten-dollar- a-week supe. Young Forepaugh is thirty years old and built like an athlete. He has had something to do about a circus ring since he was"a boy of seven. Heiirietta Jottinfis. Correspondence Aurora. Rev. Mr. Butt, of Charlotte, assist ed by Kev. T. J. Rogers, closed a ten days njeeting here last week. There was a number of conversions and nine accessions to the church. During his stay here holding quar terly meeting. Rev. Mr. Guthrie, P. E., preached several very impressive sermons. The Henrietta Sunday school bas ket picnic takes place the 4th of July. Several prominent speakers are invi ted to be here. The Henrietta Brass Band will make music for the occa sion. A string band also has been invited to bo here on the 4th. Every body invited to come and bring their basket. I understand there will be an entertainment at night. Capt. Spencer, of Charlotte, was here last week. Joseph Byars and Miss Rose Clark were married on the 14th, ult., by Rev. T. Bright. The tax assessors for High Shoal township finished their work last week. Miss Minnie Kerr, of Spartanburg, is visiting her father and family here. Mr. Dargan Avant was in Char lotte last week.* Tbo -wheat crop is narvesieu auu reports are favQfable. Political Points. A vanished surplus, a bankrupt treasury and millions of unpaid ap propriations of the Billion-Dollar Congress is one of the conditions that confronts the Republican party.— Knoxville Tribune. What with Blaine’s undying fealty. Rusk’s “loyalty to my chief,” and now the assurance that loyalty to Harrison must temper Foster’s friend ship for McKinley, it will be seen that loyalty under this Administra tion is coming to have a new mean ing in the politics of the land.—Phil. Record. Got. Campbell has no reason to regret the defeat which he encounter ed at the hands of the local machine in the Cincinnati primaries on Satur day. Presidents of the United States have been made by just such defeats, from just such oppositions as Gov. Campbell is now ^v.'Crfbmihg through out the State of "C5hio.—N. Y. Com mercial Advertiser, Dem. Let the farmer think of what he saves tlus year by reason of untaxed sugar/ and then imagine what he would save if he had untaxed wool lens, untaxed iron and steel, farming implements, glass, and so on, and af ter ho hag'reflected on it, he will con- clu?e that he could get along if he wei;e not compelled to labgr half his timij) protect somebody.—Mobile Re- gisti^r, Dem. FjW^hat Whiskey is Doing;. X |U may ask what liquor is doing, jl will reply that il is doing a gr'^^A deal, but nothing new—the ■'D always done wherever it' ^ed to stay. iL pays a license and in return de- bauHiea some of our citizens. I'^fills our jails. Iti causes great hardships to some of oVr working people. It] takes the bread out of poor lit tle qbildren’s mouths. Itl keeps them from being properly clothed during the winter’s chilling Bad Cooking Versus Crime. Edward Atkinson, the Economist, in a late article shows a close and direct connection between bad cook ing and crime. He has discovered that the liquor trafiic has its enor mous income iu large measure from indigestion and like diseases, caused mainly by bad cooking and unwhole some food. And in like manner he shows that diseases of this kind hav(^ a direct tendency to mental despon dency and criminal associations and conduct. On this subject of bad cooking we lately copied from the Atlanta Con stitution . an excellent article, in which the writer strongly condemnn the common style of serving meats, “all swimming in gravy.” The grav} should always be served in a sepa rate bowl or dish. If “Industrial Training” was onco introduced into the female depart ments of the public schools, we might hope for some reform in these great hygienic questions. In New York and several other States the movement has been started.—Char lotte Democrat. Frye’s Prophecy Fulfilled. Mr. Fisherman Frye, junior Uni ted States Senator from Maine, re marked four years ago that if hifi party ever got another whack at the Presidency, it would make that $100,- 000,000 treasury surplus sick—and Frye was a good deal of a prophet, By a great effort the United States treasurer avoids confessing to an ac tual deficit right now. The surplu.n faded faster even than Frye predict ed. It’s not only sick, but practical ly dead.—Jacksonville, Fla., Times Union. The United States Senate. The Republicans of the senate lose three of their strongest members iu the retirement of Messrs. Ed munds, Evarts and Ingalls, and may lose another in the defeat of Sena tor Sherman. These men were their ablest debaters—Edmunds and Evarts as constitutional lawyers. Sherman as a financier of ability and large experience, and Ingalls as a ready debater and incisive declaimer. They make no gains to compensate them for the loss of these men, nor for that of Senator Allison, also a gentleman of much ability and ex cellent individual standing. The Democrats, on'the contrary, have secured two very able new senators —Hill of New York, ‘^.nd Vilas oi Wisconsin. J., The Democrats'■-hava also sustain ed a great loss in the dealh of Senators Beck, of Kentucky, though he is suc ceeded by a man of the national rep utation and distinguished ability of John G. Carlisle. Mr. Beck was the best posted and most effective Dem ocratic speaker on questions of finance and the tariff, and always made strong and telling speeches on such questions. It is fortunate for the Democratic side of the senate that as able a statesman and parlia mentarian as ex-Speaker Carlisle is his successor. Itdfculd be a mistake to say that the senate of the United States does not still take rank with the ablest parliamentary bodies of the world, l3ut there are unquestionably agen cies at work that are undermining its strength. Farmers’ Needs. Wo want more stock farms, more fruit farms, more truck farms, more grass farms and fewer cotton farms. We have a glorious country, but we arc sadly in need of the men who have the nevere to inaugurate a dif ferent system in our agriculture; men who realize the importance of resting their lands, rotating crops, of feeding stock well and making and saving good, rich, barnyard manure, as well as using liberally and intelligently commercial fertilizers. To be suc cessful in farming requires as in other business, thorough business methods, constant effort and a care ful and patient attention to details. Guess work will not bring the far mer any better returns than it does the merchant or mechanic. When we know exactly where the profits and losses come in we can then in telligently increase the one and avoid th« other. Friendly legislation is a good thing, hut it will not bring relief to the farmers unless it is sup- p].emented by a careful and judicious la^'mei^' "are* ^th^^rbughly or^ilized, and farming is conducted on busi ness principles; when intensive farm ing is the rule and not the exception then, and not until then, will we see the farmers begin to prosper, and to receive their share of the long look- ed-for “profits.”—Commissioner Nes bitt in Southern Cultivator. Georgia Pire-fties. “I read in the papers the other day’' said a resident of New Jersey, “that, the fire-fiies had been so thick and sc brilliant along a Georgia river that, the captain of a steamboat had beei. obliged to tie up his boat because il- was impossible to distinguish thereg ular river lights. We don’t havi them quite so thick as that in our )art of the country, but they havf :>een more numerous and luminouH than ever.”—N. Y. Sun. Henry "Ward Beecher’s Statue. Brooklyn, N. Y., June 24.—The unveiling of a bronze statue of Hen ry Ward Beecher in City Hall Park occurred this afternoon. Hood’s Sarsaparilla has the sale of any medicine before the pub lic. Any honest druggist will con firm this statement. It keeps our churches from be filled on the Sabbath day. It takes the hard-earned money of the working man, which ought to _ for the comforts of life, and leaves him oftentimes unfit for business of any kind. It tries to shape public opinion inr regard to liquor selling, and dictates the policy of our city government. It tells the preachers to go slow on prohibition. It has done all this and a great deal more which space will not per mit a repetition here. The largest steam plow that was started up in Chino, Cal., lately, will run night and day, and will plow sixty acres every twenty-four hours. One of the largest hospitals in the world, containing accommodations for from 1000 to 1500 patients, has been opened in Constantinople, Tur key. Almost a Serious Poisoning The Concord'Standard says : Sat urday evening the families of Messrs. J. W. Cannon and John C Wadsworth were made violently sick by eating some ice cream. It was evidently caused by the cream being slightly poisoned from the fact that it was made in zinc freezer. Dr. R. S. Young being called in at an early moment had no trouble in averting what otherwise might have been serious. Kev. Fife at Greenshoro. The Greensboro Workman says _ /angelist Fife in his remarks Let night very clearly indicated the ene mies against which his batterien would be directed; the bar-room, the card table, the house of the harlot, the dance, and he made special ref erence to the action of the city com missioners in recommending a num her for license to the county board of commissioners in a recent meet ing. Prof. Charles D. Mclver ia his ad dress before the Teachers’ Assem bly said: “I ask you, then are not the teach ers of country “The Grand Army of the Republic ?” What a grand army they are! What a noble struggle ! And what a tri umph it will be when we can say of our work as the Great Teacher did of his, “It is finished*” , Mr, Fife Exonerated. The committee in charge of the Fife meetings which opened at Greensboro Sunday investigated the charges againet Evangelist W. P. Fife there Friday and Saturday. xMr. Fife appeared before the committee in person, and after hearing the evi dence and reading letters which he produced, adojHed and made public the following: Whereas, rumors have been put afloat here and elsewhere intended to affect the Christian character and usefulness of the Evangelist W. P. Fife just upon the eve of the meet ings in this city, which has been done by evil and designing persons; and whereas, the committee having in charf"^.?^q said meeting have, (in tw^^^l^^.^.ngs) had a number of let- ters^M^y/estimony exonor\ting him fro^«^U such cHarges, and Ais open and^.ull information of the circum stances case, corroborated. by a gentleman in^rson, who knows all the parties; now, therefore, be it' \ Resolved, That we are clearly of the opinion that the charges and rumors are wholy without the slight est foundation, and we shall hold up his hands, by our prayers, and bid him God speed in the good work, not only here, but wherever his lot may be cast, in the Master’s work. ^ J. S. Hunter, chairman; W. S. Moore, J. H. Lacy, S. H. Hilliard, W. P. Beall, S. L. Alderman, E. P. Wharton, E. L. Stamey, F. H. Cota, committee. Alabama’s Iron Showing. /Ongressman McMillan, of Ten nessee, has had a look into the iron statistics now being prepared by thu census bureau and as yet unpublish • He reports that the iron outpu’; of Alabama now exceeds that of any state in the Union, not excepting; Pennsylvania. Th’s is a very re markable showing for Alabama, whose iron industries are yet in their " An Unlucky Issue. The $2 bills with Hancock’s pic ture on them are to be withdraw!, from circulation, because of a dan gerous counterfeit. If the $2 bilhi circulated in Indiana in 1880 hac: been withdrawn, Hancock might havt* been president. There was no lucl: for him in this particular issue. Phil. Record. The spectacle of a professor of mathematics turning prophet and the interpreter of prophecies is so unusual that one majt be pardoned for feeling a little surprised when Professor C. A. D. Totten, of Yale, also a graduate of West Point, in forms us that the second coming of Christ will occur in March, 1899. Professor Totten claims to havd found this out by applying mathe matical methods to the periodH mentioned in prophecy. Nobodj' will believe the professor, and young people will go on flirting and old peo ple will go on flirting and old people will go on flirting and old people will on money grubbing just the same. But what a time there would be if the prophecy should come true, wouldn’t there ? Enforced Temperance. The Nation says : “The agency of , the railroad companies in promoting temperance is not generally appre ciated. They employ 689,912 per sons, not counting those who mine the coal and iron, make the rails or locomotives, or build the cars and carriages used by the road. The freight and passenger trafiic of the country is practically controlled by 600 of these corporations, and of these 600 no fewer than 375 prohibit the use of intoxicating liquors by their employeF, among the number bsing most of the largest companies. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers uses its influence in the same direction. ‘Whenever a member of the order is known to be dissipated,’ says Mr. Arthur, long the head of the organization, ‘we not only expel or suspend him, but notify his em ployers,’ and during the last year 375 members were expelled for this cause. This is only one illustration of the way in which practical business considerations are oper ating to promote the spread , of temperancc. It is purely a matter of business with the railroad companies, v TheyLsimplv..CiinnQi.afr _ any day to-iet drunk ;kid pi:ecipiiate some terrible disaster. The average man thus comes to see that it is ‘money in his pocket,’ in more sense* than one, if he keeps out of the sa- loon; and the moral is not lost upon him.” Eleven Year CJalf. Considerable excitement was caused in this county last week over the elopement on last Friday even ing of one Alfred Cannon, of Cald well county, with the eleven-year-old daughter of Mr. Ephraim Hicks, of Mt. Holly. Descriptions of Cannon were sent out and ofi^icers put on his trail, which resulted in his capture Saturday night about a mile below Gastonia. The girl, or rather child, was sent home and Cannon was brought over here and lodged in jail. • ' Served him right.—Dallas Eagle. There is no doubt that Bar^,., Hirsch and other millionaire H^ brews will found a colony for the oppressed Jews now being driven away from Russia. The colony will either be in Australia or South America. It ought by good rights to be Palestine. Palestine belongs to the Jews, and the Jews belong to Palestine. W'ith the money at their command the sons of this ancient people could make the land fertile and smiling once more, and bring it back to its former glory. The sul tan might sell out cheap, and we should once again have a Jewish country. ^ The suggestion has been made that the United States government es tablish a telephone at every country post ofiice for the use of farmers. It would save “many tiresome trips to the railway station, many a weary ride to summo: the doctor and many a trip to the^G J^nty court house.” It would only cost, all told, fifteen dol lars to the mile. Yes, b.j^^ where ^ would the telephone go. ' '* ; ev^y farmer tioial one . to his house ’ 4i tn« 1 country post office ? While he was ' going to the country postoflice he could go just as well after the doc tor or to the railway station. Mr. Spurgeorf, with a number of other English ministers, alarmed by recent Wesleyan discussions on in spiration and Sabbath-keeping, haH signed a manifesto, declaring for thorough Galvanism and accepting both Testaments as the Word of God, holding that the two must stand or fall together. “We are as yet but children,” sayu Max Muller in a recent lecture, “Man’s life on earth is only in its be ginnings ; the futuriB before him lu immense; the past that lies behind us is but the short preface to a work that will require many volumej before it is finished; before man hai become what he was meant to be.” The University [of South Carolina state institution. Professor W. J. Alexander is professor of logic and rhetoric. At least he was. Recent ly ho changed his religious belief, in duced thereto by some years of study and thinking, and became a Unitari an. The board of management thereupon turned him out of his pro fessorship, and now Rev. Minot J. Savage wants to know what is the state religion of South Carolina. “It’s no use to feel of me wrist, doctor,” said Pat, when the physician began taking his pulse, “the pain is not there, sir, it’s in the head en- toirely.” Follow a man into his private home and learn how he treats his family and you then know how to size up his dealings with the outside world. . The longest word in the Winne bago language is Shonkhatarakizan- honikonkcinena. It means: “I will give you a horse.” Real estate in Kansas along the Missouri river is tumbling. The river it in.
The Highlander and Shelby News (Shelby, N.C.)
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